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  • Mystery on Skull Island

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    In 1724, Rachel Howell leaves New York for South Carolina . . . and plunges into a dangerous world of pirates and hidden treasure that threatens her family’s futureWhen New York–born and –raised Rachel Howell sails for South Carolina to be reunited with her father, the last thing she expects is to be attacked by pirates! She’s lucky to escape with her life, but the attackers take a pearl necklace belonging to her dead mother. Things go from bad to worse when Rachel arrives safely in Charles Town and learns her father is getting married again. The one bright spot is her friendship with Sally Pugh, the daughter of the local tavern owner. Until Papa’s bride-to-be arrives . . . and forbids Rachel from seeing Sally. Determined to remain friends, Rachel and Sally search for a secret place to meet. They discover a hidden island in the Charles Town port, containing a sinkhole filled with quicksand, rocks with mysterious markings, . . . and a human skull. But when the girls are stranded overnight and overhear men in a hidden lagoon, they realize they’ve stumbled onto something big. It could destroy Rachel’s father’s business . . . and Rachel’s life. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • Peril at King's Creek: A Felicity Mystery

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (American Girl Publishing Inc 03-01-2006, Aug. 16, 2006)
    Peril at King's Creek: A Felicity Mystery (American Girl Mysteries (Quality)) [ Peril at King's Creek: A Felicity Mystery (American Girl Mysteries (Quality)) by Jones, Elizabeth McDavid ( Author ) Paperback Mar- 2006 ] Paperback Mar- 01- 2006
  • The Night Flyers

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    Winner of the Edgar Award: When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsible With her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family’s prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm. The birds are special because her father trained them to fly at night so they can bring messages to his family when he’s not there. And now a stranger with a foreign accent has shown up in Currituck with an offer to buy the whole lot. But Pam isn’t interested in selling. She loves the pigeons and would much rather spend time with them than go to school. Then she wakes up one morning to find some pigeons missing. After the disappearance of Caspian, her favorite, the plucky pigeoneer sets a plan in motion to catch the thief. She has a pretty good idea who it is. But how is she supposed to rescue her pigeons and outwit a German spy? This ebook includes a historical afterword.
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  • Secrets on 26th Street

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movementEleven-year-old Susan O’Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters. But ever since their father died, her mother depends on her. To make ends meet, she’s just taken a boarder, an Englishwoman named Beatrice Rutherford, into their Chelsea tenement apartment. Susan and Bea become fast friends, but when Susan finds a folded piece of paper with six cryptic words—must be kept secret for now—she wonders what her new friend is hiding. Is Bea a spy? Is she trying to involve Susan’s mother in something dangerous? Susan’s fear becomes a reality when her mother vanishes on the day five thousand women from every state in the Union come to New York for a suffrage rally. A riot erupts, and Susan knows something truly momentous has happened. Terrified for her mother’s safety, she begins a search that exposes some hard truths about her city—and their new boarder. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • The Night Flyers

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Sept. 1, 1999)
    In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy
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  • Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    language (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    On an island off the coast of Virginia, the daughter of a US Lifesaver investigates a series of suspicious shipwrecksIt’s 1895. Rhoda Midyette lives on Glenn Island, where her father is keeper of the US Lifesaving Station. He leads rescue operations whenever a ship hits the dangerous shoals around the island—which has happened far too often lately. One stormy night, when Rhoda and her father’s team help the survivors off their destroyed boat, she spies a mysterious light on the cape above Graveyard Shoal. The next day, she finds footprints in the sand. Is someone deliberately causing the collisions? Swaying their lanterns so the sailors will navigate toward the perilous shallows instead of away from them? Or is it a ghost light—and are the footprints those of the mythical mangled mariner? As she digs deeper, Rhoda uncovers clues that threaten everything she knows. With so much at stake—including her best-friendship with the gravely ill Pearl—Rhoda has to trust in herself and find a way to save lives. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • Traitor in Williamsburg: A Felicity Mystery

    Elizabeth M. Jones

    Paperback (American Girl, March 1, 2008)
    Felicity Merriman is alarmed when mysterious notices appear in Williamsburg, falsely accusing her friend Fiona's father of helping th British. With the Revolution heating up, Felicity knows the accusations will bring danger to Fiona's family. Then Felicity's own father is accused of being a traitor, too, and she decides she has to find out who's making the terrible accusations! Set in 1776.
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  • Watcher in the Piney Woods

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    language (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, July 8, 2014)
    As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserterAs the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie’s father and beloved brother, Jacob, are away fighting with the Confederate army. When a letter arrives with the news that Jacob has been killed, Cassie and her dog, Hector, immediately go to the secret hiding place Cassie and Jacob shared—a thicket deep in the piney woods. But when she finds the remains of a campsite, she realizes that someone has been living in their special place. Suddenly afraid, Cassie tries to flee, but runs smack into a Confederate deserter. With Hector’s help, she escapes. But she can’t forget the man’s crazed eyes—or the way he threatened her. Soon, Cassie begins to have the strange feeling that she’s being watched—and then things start disappearing from the farm. Has the deserter returned to make good on his warnings, or is someone else lurking in the woods, waiting to harm Cassie and her family? This ebook includes a historical afterword.
  • Watcher in the Piney Woods

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Sept. 1, 2000)
    In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
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  • Mystery on Skull Island

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Aug. 1, 2001)
    No longer allowed to associate with her best friend Sally, a tavernowner's daughter, Rachel decides to meet her friend secretly on an island outside of town, where they find a human skull and strange carvings on the stones and trees, leading them both on a dangerous adventure, in an enthralling mystery set in 1724 in Charles Town, South Carolina. Simultaneous.
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  • Secrets on 26th Street

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Oct. 1, 1999)
    In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement
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  • Watcher in the Piney Woods

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Hardcover (Amer Girl Pub, Sept. 1, 2000)
    In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
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